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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Lightning Kills Secondary School Student

Very sad story...

The students of Muslim College, Oworonsoki, Lagos state were
thrown into grief over the mysterious death of a 19-year-old Celestina
Farotide, an SS3 female pupil of the school who was struck by a mysterious
thunder on Monday morning at the school premises

Celestina was about starting her final examination when she
was overpowered by death.

The victim’s father was said to be in shock and in great
disbelief over the incident and had as result refused to show up to collect the
corpse, saying, “It cannot be my daughter”.

An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity said, “We had finished
with the morning assembly, but some students were still coming in. Celestina
had prepared her desk in readiness for the West African Senior Secondary
Certificate Examination’s practical they were to have that morning before she
was struck by the evil lightning.”

DailyPost gathered that the deceased was returning from
where she had gone to buy her morning food when she met her untimely death.

The eyewitness said, “The lightning came in their direction
and immediately, three of the school girls fell.

“Two of them rose up and ran. Celestina rose up too, but the
lightning struck for the second time, and

she (Celestina) fell finally on the floor and did not rise
again.

“She was immediately taken to the teachers’ staff room,
where a teacher was asked to take her to the Gbagada General Hospital. It was
there she was confirmed dead.”

The principal of the school was said to be away on a
week-long conference in Makurdi when the incident happened but authorities of
the school contacted Celestina’s grandmother at New Garage area of Lagos.

The Oba of Oworonsoki land, Oba Bashir Oloruntodupefun, said
the gods were angry because Oworosoki’s land had been desecrated by strangers
and that the government was taking over ancestral lands and selling them to
non-indigenes.

He said, “It’s a pity the girl died. The circumstances
surrounding her death are mysterious because the girl was never sick. From what
happened, we can all see the gods are making demands.

“The shrines that should be used for sacrifices have been
swept away in water. And the land we have is being sold by government officials
to their friends and they send military men to threaten us.

“Government needs to give us our land back. The real Oworo
is submerged in waters. We want them to help sand fill those places taken over
by water because our cultural heritage has been misplaced. If this is
done, evil will no longer occur.”

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